Video · The Rebbe

What Is a Biography?

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Simon Jacobson considers what biography means in Judaism and how to approach a biography of a Rebbe.

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Chabad.org

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Documented Chabad affiliation

Founder, Meaningful Life Center; former editor-in-chief, Vaad Hanochos Hatmimim

Chabad.org’s institutional history names Rabbi Simon Jacobson as a transcriber of the Rebbe’s Yiddish talks published through Vaad Hanachos Hatemimim. His official full-name biography documents over 14 years as that body’s editor-in-chief, beginning in 1979.

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